English Dictionary

have

/hæv/

verb

(transitive) To possess, own. / (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal. / (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

I have a car.

意味（1）

(transitive) To possess, own.

I have a house and a car.

意味（2）

(transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!

意味（3）

(transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.

意味（4）

(transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

I have two sisters.

意味（5）

(transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).

I have breakfast at six o'clock.

意味（6）

(transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

Can I have a look at that?

意味（7）

(transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

What class do you have right now? I have English.

意味（8）

To experience, go through, undergo.

We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.

意味（9）

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

He had a cold last week.

意味（10）

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

I have already eaten today.

意味（11）

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

They haven’t eaten dinner yet, have they?

意味（12）

(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

I have to go.

意味（13）

(transitive) To give birth to.

The couple always wanted to have children.

意味（14）

(usually passive) To obtain.

The substance you describe can't be had at any price.

意味（15）

(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.

He’s always bragging about how many women he’s had.

意味（16）

(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.

Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.

意味（17）

(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.

意味（18）

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

He had him arrested for trespassing.

意味（19）

(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.

意味（20）

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

Their stories differed; he said he’d been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.

意味（21）

(Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.

I could have him!

意味（22）

(Britain, slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.

You broke the window! Teacher’ll have you for that!

意味（23）

(dated outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

I have no German.

意味（24）

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.

意味（25）

(informal, often passive) To trick, to deceive.

I bought a laptop online but it never arrived. I think I've been had!

意味（26）

(transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.

The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.

意味（27）

(transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.

意味（28）

(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.

Thank you for having me!

意味（29）

(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

What do you have for problem two?

意味（30）

(transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

We’ll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.

意味（31）

(transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).

For some reason, I had a Freckled Duck today never seems to work as a pick-up line.